Clear-as-a-bell and cold this early Friday on California’s north coast, but we can taste the fruit-filling of the weekend already and take courage from it.

President Obama’s suicidal boast this week: America has  “…more oil produced at home than we buy from the rest of the world — the first time that’s happened in nearly 20 years.”

In the state of the earth — pure  insane.

(Illustration found here).

Even more crazy, as he blubbered this out a few minutes later: “But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.”
PolitiFact rated Obama’s figures as true, but not necessarily because of anything he’s done — in 2013 the produced an average of 7.8 million barrels of oil per day in October and imported 7.5 million barrels of oil per day.
Wow. Other factors include the recession, which leads to less demand, and the ginormous oil production going on right now.
Like fracking — via Aljazeera:

Living near hydraulic fracturing — or “fracking”– sites may increase the risk of some birth defects by as much as 30 percent, a new study suggests.
In the U.S., more than 15 million people now live within a mile of a well.
The use of fracking, a gas-extraction process through which sand, water and chemicals are pumped into the ground to release trapped fuel deposits, has increased significantly in the U.S. over the past decade.
Five years ago, the U.S. produced 5 million barrels of oil per day; today, it’s 7.4 million, thanks largely to fracking.

And earthquakes, burning water and shitty air.
Or maybe, the end result will be like us Californians — from the LA Times:

Even with the first significant storm in nearly two months dropping snow on the Sierra Nevada, Thursday’s mountain snowpack measurements were the lowest for the date in more than a half-century of record keeping.
At 12 percentof average for this time of year, the dismal statewide snowpack underscored the severity of a drought that is threatening community water supplies and leaving farm fields in many parts of California barren.
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Thanks to billions of dollars of ratepayer investments in regional water storage projects and conservation programs, Southern California is in a stronger position than much of the rest of the state.
“We spent 20 years preparing for a drought like this,” MWD General Manager Jeffrey Kightlinger said.
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Kightlinger also said MWD would be open to forgoing some water shipments and transferring them to needy districts in other parts of the state if enough storms come along in the next two months to raise the level of depleted reservoirs upstate.
But “right now we don’t even have those supplies in Northern California,” he said.
“Frankly, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

And it will only get worse.

The scenario slithering out into the way-near-future is based upon burning fossil fuels — and we need to stop, and stop yesterday!
Mr. President, our children’s children will not exist.
Rachel Carson, not so-long ago: “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.”
And its conclusion.